[AVRO-1618] Allow user to "clean up" unions into more conventional dicts in json encoding

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.7
• Component/s: python
• Assignee: Aaron Kimball
• Reporter: Aaron Kimball
• Created: 09/Dec/14 02:25
• Updated: 22/Dec/14 23:51

Description

In Avro's JSON encoding, unions are implemented in a tagged fashion; walking through this data structure is somewhat cumbersome. It would be good to have a way of "decoding" this tagged-union data structure into a more conventional dict where the union element is directly present without the tag.

Issue Links

• relates to: AVRO-1291 Python library missing strict JSON encode/decode
• relates to: AVRO-91 Add JSON Encoder and Decoder in Python implementation